You folks would have loved this!

[nick949]

Or at least I know Austin would have, but perhaps not two-up. No, definately not two-up!

First a sample map. This is a segment of the 1:50,000 - to give you a sense of scale, the little blue squares are 1km each.
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You need the right kind of bike for these roads. Something robust, reliable (indestructible actually) and which looks cool when you get to the coffee shop a couple of hundred miles later. One like this perhaps.

The you have to find the road. Fortunately this isn't too much of a problem.

Recent rains had washed the road out in places (these two were nothing - I was too busy bouncing through the interesting ones to take any pictures). Yes, that is bear shit by the rear wheel.

Obviously fuel is important, so fill up whenever you can before diving back into the bush.

It's wise to take a break whenever the opportunity arises.

But you may as well make a day of it....

 

[boboneleg]

That looks cracking and nice to do it on such a different bike.

 

[austin]

Great stuff Nick. meanwhile I had to make do with a few days in Scotland where the highlights were a sneaky 2 mile forestry track to "look" at a property for sale up there, and a slightly longer one to access a pony trekking centre (me, on a pony, ha ha ha hah).

 

[nick949]

Great stuff Nick. meanwhile I had to make do with a few days in Scotland where the highlights were a sneaky 2 mile forestry track to "look" at a property for sale up there, and a slightly longer one to access a pony trekking centre (me, on a pony, ha ha ha hah).

It was rather good. About fifty miles on single track logging / cottage roads in all. Remember riding down the driveway to Chris's cottages where we took the boat that you rode two-up? Plenty of it was like that.

Were your feet dragging on either side of the pony? I hope someone had a camera.

 

[austin]

No Pony rides Nick, but you need to have an excuse to be riding down what would otherwise be a private track. However I did end up camping there.

 

[Lowflyer]

Back in the day up here you could get a "pony " over the bar.

Basically it was a quarter / half of a pint that the barman used to give you free every 2nd or 3rd dram. Totally illegal now, but back then it was a way of , shall we say, enticing the customer to stay that wee bit longer

Thought this would be of interest to you Austin